Oct. 19, 2016 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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| While mainstream media focuses on Trump's locker room talk and Clinton's emails, | ||
| there are actually a whole slew of other interesting political stories happening right now | ||
| related to the presidential election. | ||
| This election has seen a massive shift in America's political alignment on both the left and the right. | ||
| On the left, we've seen a real divide between the Bernie wing of the Democrats and the Clinton camp. | ||
| Bernie's message against Wall Street, money in politics, and his chastising of the political establishment has been swallowed wholly by the political Clinton machine. | ||
| While Bernie is now supporting Hillary, it's pretty clear that many of his supporters aren't following his lead in either donations or enthusiasm. | ||
| This division is one of the reasons Hillary is still struggling with young people and overall connecting with new voters. | ||
| Meanwhile, on the right, we've seen the absolute fracturing of the Republican Party as we know it. | ||
| Mainstream Republicans like Paul Ryan, John McCain, and Jeb Bush are now on the outside looking in as Trump has aggressively gutted the party. | ||
| It's pretty clear that if Trump wins in November, the old guard of the Republicans will be out and his inside circle of people like Rudy Giuliani, Chris Christie, and Ben Carson will be in. | ||
| While the list of Republicans not voting for Trump continues to grow, the Republican base who voted during the primaries is still with him, and whether the party is supporting Trump or not, those people are. | ||
| Trump's rise also fractured the Republican Party ideologically. | ||
| Neocons are either in hiding or defecting to Hillary, while the Christian conservatives are backing Trump, a candidate who was probably their last choice when this election began. | ||
| Let's not forget, this is a guy who compared his own book to the Bible. | ||
| As they say, politics can make strange bedfellows. | ||
| For both the Democrats and the Republicans, 2016 will be looked back on as a watershed year. | ||
| Regardless of who wins, it's clear the parties are in flux and they both desperately need new ideas and new leaders. | ||
| The fact that we have a 69-year-old Democrat running against a 70-year-old Republican tells you all you need to know about the aging state of our two-party system. | ||
| How is it that these two were the best our system could churn out? | ||
| While it's easy to mock millennials, just imagine how you would feel if this was the first presidential election you ever really paid attention to or had a chance to vote in. | ||
| We've got the ultimate reality star running against the ultimate insider. | ||
| And while they may hate each other, they're also perfect for each other. | ||
| By the time this thing is over, they'll have thrown out everything but the kitchen sink, but that'll only be because they needed it to wash their dirty hands. | ||
| One of the many issues which seems to have been almost totally shelved during this campaign is science. | ||
| I guess in some ways science is the obvious sacrificial lamb in an election contest focusing so much on mudslinging instead of discussing the actual issues that affect our lives. | ||
| As we discussed during my chat with transhumanist Zoltan Istvan two weeks ago, there are so many huge upcoming scientific breakthroughs coming down the pike, from stem cell research to cloning to artificial intelligence, that we must talk about these issues now, so that we'll know how to deal with the ramifications of them, both good and bad, when they're right in front of us. | ||
| Scientific breakthroughs will continue to happen whether we're prepared for them or not. | ||
| Perhaps we can never be fully prepared, but we at least need leaders who believe in the merits of science in the first place. | ||
| My guest this week is theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss. | ||
| Krauss is the foundation professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration and Physics Department at Arizona State University, as well as the director of the Origins Project at ASU, which focuses on the origins of humans and the universe itself. | ||
| Krauss has been outspoken this election related to politics and science, particularly the seeming lack of knowledge in this department by Donald Trump. | ||
| We're going to dive deep both into science and politics, as well as the many places that the two intersect. |
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